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Spring Break Service: Sacred Heart Style
Brittany Raine
Issue date: 3/2/06 Section: News
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Spring break excursions are no longer just about memorable fun in the tropical sun. This coveted week has now become a time for the young and restless to embark on missions of service and sincere sacrifice, rebuilding lives, homes and hearts.
The idea for an "alternative spring break" is sweeping the nation, with commercials on MTV encouraging college students across the nation to volunteer and take part in rebuilding the Gulf Coast.
Sacred Heart will be doing its part to make a difference when it sends over 80 students, faculty, and advisors for the roughly seven day Spring Break Service Trip. The trip will take volunteers to four locations: El Salvador, Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina.
"This is Sacred Heart's fifteenth trip to El Salvador," said Donna Dodge, Ed.D., vice president for Mission and Planning, and advisor for the Mississippi relief trip.
"Our university has a commitment to a village and its people in El Salvador. The other trips to North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama have to do with Habitat for Humanity and the continuous cleanup efforts from Hurricane Katrina."
Students and faculty are impressed by the large turnout and financial support from the Sacred Heart community.
"[These four locations] have prompted the largest turnout on a service trip in the history of the university," said Dodge. "I am very pleased with the number of students and faculty who are willing to take time out of their vacation to help others."
"One day I hope that everyone can get involved with volunteering one way or another. By helping others, through events like the Spring Break Service Trip, one becomes more mature and sincere by giving of themselves through others."
The large turnout gives students like Jennifer Torres, junior, Bronx, N.Y., a greater opportunity to make an even more profound impact in the lives of the citizens of El Salvador, Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina. Torres knows that every person makes a difference.
The idea for an "alternative spring break" is sweeping the nation, with commercials on MTV encouraging college students across the nation to volunteer and take part in rebuilding the Gulf Coast.
Sacred Heart will be doing its part to make a difference when it sends over 80 students, faculty, and advisors for the roughly seven day Spring Break Service Trip. The trip will take volunteers to four locations: El Salvador, Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina.
"This is Sacred Heart's fifteenth trip to El Salvador," said Donna Dodge, Ed.D., vice president for Mission and Planning, and advisor for the Mississippi relief trip.
"Our university has a commitment to a village and its people in El Salvador. The other trips to North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama have to do with Habitat for Humanity and the continuous cleanup efforts from Hurricane Katrina."
Students and faculty are impressed by the large turnout and financial support from the Sacred Heart community.
"[These four locations] have prompted the largest turnout on a service trip in the history of the university," said Dodge. "I am very pleased with the number of students and faculty who are willing to take time out of their vacation to help others."
"One day I hope that everyone can get involved with volunteering one way or another. By helping others, through events like the Spring Break Service Trip, one becomes more mature and sincere by giving of themselves through others."
The large turnout gives students like Jennifer Torres, junior, Bronx, N.Y., a greater opportunity to make an even more profound impact in the lives of the citizens of El Salvador, Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina. Torres knows that every person makes a difference.